Mounting bracket for refuse disposal container



Dec. 26, 1961 w. J. GOULD, JR

. MOUNTING BRACKET FOR REFUSE DISPOSAL CONTAINER 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Dec. 2, 1958 IN VENTOR. W/zMwJ @0010, JP.

Dec. 26, 1961 w. J. GOULD, JR

MOUNTING BRACKET FOR REFUSE DISPOSAL CONTAINER 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Dec. 2, 1958 INVENTOR. W/zz/l/mf 60am, Jk. BY v 4/70K/Vfl Filed Dec. 2, 1958, Ser. No. 777,662 4 Claims. (Cl. 248-313) The present invention relates to a mounting bracket for a refuse disposal container and, more particularly, to a detachable one especially suited for mounting any of a number of different sizes of containers upon a cabinet door such as that of a kitchen sink cabinet.

Most present day households use refuse disposal containers to receive kitchen and table food scraps pending their removal at frequent intervals to an out-of-doors garbage can. These containers conventionally are provided with a hinged lid which is usually opened and closed by a toe-actuated pedal. The area around the sink in a kitchen is one of the points of highest traffic density, yet it is here that kitchen and table food scraps originate in large part. Nevertheless, it is frequently the practice to locate the refuse disposal container in an out-of-the-way corner of the kitchen where it will not constitute an accident hazard. This location obviously reduces the convenient use of the refuse container and often results in its temporary relocation at the sink for use even though creating a temporary hazard. To avoid these disadvantages, various arrangements have been proposed by which a refuse disposal container may be mounted within the base cabinet under the sink so that it is more readily available, but these are all relatively expensive or cumbersome or both.

The mounting bracket of the present invention makes possible the utilization of existing and generally available types of refuse disposal containers with minimum initial and replacement costs, and enables their convenient use and location immediately adjacent the kitchen sink without at the same time creating an accident hazard.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel light weight and yet sturdy mounting bracket by which a refuse disposal container may be readily and firmly mounted upon the inside of the door of 'a waisthigh base cabinet, and one which permits the container as thus mounted to be so oriented on the door as to enable its hinged lid to be automatically opened and retained open and to be closed in a simple manner merely by action of opening and closing the cabinet door.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a relatively inexpensive yet durable wall surface mounting bracket which may be easily attached to and detached from a refuse disposed container to permit replacement or change of the container from time to time without the necessity of also replacing the mounting bracket.

It is yet a further object of the invention to provide, for demountable use with refuse disposal containers and the like,,,a wall surface mounting bracket of relatively simple construction adapted to low-cost mass production techniques.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear as the detailed description thereof proceeds in the light of the drawings forming a part of this application and in which:

FIGS. 1 and. .2 areelevational views illustrating a refuse disposal container mounted by a mounting bracket embodying the present invention upon the inside of the door of a base cabinet, and FIGS. 3 and 4 are top views corresponding to the FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrations;

FIG. 5 illustrates in plan view the configuration of a mounting bracket embodying the present invention, FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view showing the mounting bracket sectioned along the plane 6-6of FIG. 5 with attached container, and FIGS. 7 and 8 are fragmentary cross-secnited States Patent 3,014,684 Patented Dec. 26, 1961 2 tional views showing details of construction of the mounting bracket.

Referring now more particularly to FIGS. 1-5, a mounting bracket embodying the present invention includes an H-shaped base structure 10 which is secured by wood screws to the door 11 of a base cabinet 12. The base structure 10 includes a pair of arms 13 and 14, shown more clearly in FIG. 5, which are positioned horizon-tally when the base structure 10 is mounted on the door 11. The arms 13 and 14 of the base structure. 10 are connected by an integral bar 15 which extends into a foot portion 16.

The base structure 10 is provided with a vertically extending central seat portion 17 having a surface contour conforming to the exterior horizontal-plane cross-sectional configuration of a refuse disposal container 18 to provide a positioning seat for the latter on the base structure. The foot 16 positions the container 18 vertically in the seat 17 and the container, as thus positioned, is fixedly secured to the base structure 10 by a securing band member 19 anchored at its ends to the arms 13 of the base structure. As shown more clearly in FIG. 6, the securing band 19 has riveted to each of its ends a threaded I-bolt member 29. These extend through apertures 21 of the arms 13 and are provided with wing nuts 22 to secure the band 19 and draw it tightly around the container 18. The completed assembly is secured to the door 11 by Wood screws 23.

The container 18 is conventionally provided with a lid 24 which is connected to the container by a hinge 25, and the container 18 is so mounted on the base struc ture 10 that its hinge 25 is directed toward the hinged edge of the door 11 as illustrated more clearly in FIGS. 2 and 4. This enables a screw-eye 26, provided centrally of the lid 24, to be connected by a simple string 27 to a screw-eye 28 affixed to the base cabinet 12 whereby the manual opening and closing of the door 11 is accompanied by an automatic opening and closing of the lid 24. For this purpose, the hinge 25 is so constructed as to limit the opening of the lid 24 to something less than so that the center of gravity of the lid lies inside of the hinge 25 and the lid thus tends naturally to close of its own weight. It has been found in practice that with the cabinet door fully opened the natural tendeney of the lid 24 to close of its own weight is not sufficient to overcome the frictional resistance of the door hinges and the door accordingly remains in fully opened position.

The container 18, as illustrated by the fragmentary view of FIG. 7, usually is constructed as an open-bottom outer shell 29 which carries the hinged lid 24 and encloses a removable refuse receiving inner container 30 arranged to be lifted out of the shell for emptying. The foot 16 is conveniently provided with a seated machine screw 31 arranged to extend a short distance into the open end of the shell 29 as a convenient means of retaining the shell in position in the seat 17 while the container is being mounted upon the base structure 10 and secured in place by the band 19. p

The H-shaped base structure 10 is preferably formed hollow, as illustrated in FIGS. 6, 7 and 8, and of such cross-sectional configuration as to adapt it to be manu factured as a metal die casting. This enables its fabrication by low-cost mass production techniques.

It will be apparent from the foregoing description of the invention that a refuse disposal container mounting bracket embodying theinvention enables various sizes of containers to be readily yet firmly mounted upon a vertical wall surface. such as the inside of a cabinet door. At the same time, the bracket permits containers readily available upon the market to be so mounted as to accom- 'plish in an exceptionally simple and effective manner the opening and closing of the hinged lid of the container merely by the opening and closing of a cabinet door. The mounting bracket of the invention permits ready replacement or change of the container from time to time as necessary or desirable without the necessity of also replacing the bracket, and is of light-weight yet sturdy construction adapting it to low-cost fabrication by mass production techniques.

While a specific form of invention has been described for purposes of illustration, it is contemplated that numerous changes may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

What is claimed is:

1. A mounting bracket for a refuse disposal container comprising an integral die-cast member of H-shaped configuration adapted to be secured to a vertical wall surface with the arms of said member positioned horizontally, said member having a vertically extending central seat portion of surface contour conforming to the exterior horizontal-plane cross-sectional configuration of said container to provide a positioning seat therefor on said member, said member including an integral depending foot portion adapted to engage the bottom of said container to position said container vertically in said seat portion, and a securing band member having at least one threaded end portion for detachably anchoring at its ends to aligned ones of said arms and adapted to extend around said container to secure said container fixedly in position in said seat portion of said member.

2. A mounting bracket for a refuse disposal container comprising a die-cast member of H-shaped configuration adapted to be secured to a vertical wall surface with the arms of said member positioned horizontally, said member having generally U-shaped cross-sections in planes vertical to its mounting-surface plane and including a central vertically extending and depressed seat portion of contour conforming to the exterior horizontal-plane crosssectional configuration of said container to provide a positioning seat therefor on said member, said member including an integral depending foot portion adapted to engage the bottom of said container to position said container vertically in said seat portion, and a securing band member detachably anchored at its ends to aligned ones of said arms and adapted to extend around said container to secure said container fixedly in position in said seat portion of. said member.

3. A mounting bracket for a refuse disposal container comprising a die-cast base member of H-shaped configuration adapted to be secured to a vertical wall-surface with the arms of said member positioned horizontally,

said base member having generally U-shaped cross-sections in planes vertical to its mounting-surface plane and including a vertically extending and depressed seat portion of contour conforming to the exterior horizontalplane cross-sectional configuration of said container to provide a positioning seat therefor on said base member, and a securing band member anchored at its ends to aligned ones of said arms and adapted to extend around said container to secure said container fixedly in position in said seat portion of said base member, said band member including at least one threaded bolt member affixed to an end thereof to provide a detachable anchoring of said band member to an arm of said base member and to draw said band member tightly around said container as positioned in said seat portion of said base member. 4. A mounting bracket for a refuse disposal container comprising a die-cast base member having arms adapted to be secured in horizontal position to a vertical cabinetdoor surface and having an integral central portion connecting said arms and depending at right angles thereto to terminate in a supporting foot portion adapted to support and vertically position a hinged-lid container of cylindrical cross-section, said depending central portion of said member and the central portion of said arms having a depressed cylindrical contour corresponding approximately to the exterior contour of said container and providing a vertically extending central positioning seat for said container on said base member, and a flexible member detachably anchored to said arms and adapted to extend around and be tightened against said container to secure said container fixedly in position in said seat of said base member while permitting said container to be mounted with such orientation that the hinge of its lid is toward the hinged side of said door, thereby to permit a flexible coupling between the cabinet and lid to effect automatic opening and closing of said lid with the opening and closing movement of said door.

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